Home › Guides › Job scams › FlexJobs Job scams Yes, FlexJobs is a legitimate company, not a scam. It is a paid job-listing service, founded in 2007, that collects remote, hybrid, part-time and flexible jobs and says it screens them for scams before publishing. What you pay for is access to that curated list and some career tools –
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Home › Guides › Job scams › Envelope stuffing Job scams Envelope stuffing jobs from home – and their cousins, pen and craft assembly, handwriting letters and “mailing” work – are almost always scams. The Federal Trade Commission has warned about them for decades and has repeatedly taken operators to court. The pattern hardly changes: you pay for a starter
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Home › Guides › Transcription › Pay rates Transcription Transcription platforms quote pay per audio minute or per audio hour – the length of the recording, not the time you spend on it. To know what a rate is worth, divide it by your real work time. A beginner who needs five hours to finish one audio hour earns one
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Home › Guides › Transcription › Medical Transcription Medical transcription from home still exists in 2026, but the job has changed: most work is now editing drafts produced by speech-recognition software rather than typing dictation from scratch, and the field is shrinking. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported a median pay of $37,550 a year for medical transcriptionists in
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Home › Guides › Part time › For teachers Part time Teachers in the US have several realistic part-time remote options: online tutoring, teaching small classes on course marketplaces, scoring standardized tests and essays, writing curriculum and assessment items, and teaching English to learners abroad. Most are contractor work with flexible hours and pay set per session, per class or
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Home › Guides › Part time › Evening jobs Part time Remote jobs you can do in the evening or overnight exist mainly where customers or systems need people around the clock: customer and technical support, healthcare and insurance lines, IT monitoring, content moderation, and online tutoring for students in other time zones. Self-scheduled work such as transcription also fits
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Home › Guides › No experience › Interview No experience A remote job interview in the US usually has two or three rounds: a short phone screen, a one-way recorded video or a live video interview, and sometimes a technical check of your home setup. Employers use them to judge how you communicate without being in the room, whether your
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Home › Guides › No experience › Paid training No experience Remote jobs with paid training hire people without experience and teach them the job in structured virtual classes, usually for two to six weeks, while paying the regular hourly wage. They are most common in customer service, insurance and healthcare support, claims processing and sales development. The trade-off is
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Home › Guides › Customer service › Equipment Customer service Remote customer service employers in the US ask for nearly the same setup: a wired Ethernet connection to a cable or fiber internet service, a minimum download and upload speed, a USB headset with a noise-cancelling microphone, a computer that meets their specifications, and a quiet, private room. Some ship
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Home › Guides › Customer service › Chat support Customer service A remote chat support agent answers customers in writing, usually in two to four conversations at the same time, inside a help desk tool with saved replies and a knowledge base. In the US most chat jobs are hourly employee roles at outsourcing companies, software firms, retailers and financial
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